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...Perhaps politically the protesters are right, we shouldn't be here in Viet Nam [Dec. 15]; but morally we are right. Anyone who has been here and seen a village headman's death by V.C. terrorism knows it. And we can feel it communicated through the attitudes of the Vietnamese people and in the eyes of the children. Those who haven't been here can't know these feelings. But ask any of us over here, especially those of us in the hospitals to whom this war must mean the most, and the answer will invariably...
Often, murdering the village elder or headman deprives the peasants...
...their command. Loudspeaker teams travel through V.C. villages, whispering rumormongers scuttle through government zones, U.S.O.-type song-and-dance troupes and armed propaganda teams enter a village to "protect" it after advance men have sounded out the villagers' grievances. Whatever the complaints?whether they deal with a corrupt headman or a lack of land reform?the Viet Cong move in and offer redress where they can. Their methods are direct: shoot the corrupt chief, redistribute the land...
...return to ancient custom for the rural Vietnamese, whose whole harsh span of years may well be lived out within a ten-mile radius of his village birthplace. The conquering Chinese in 207 B.C. first organized the Vietnamese into close-knit villages, with a council of elders and a headman who was priest, welfare worker and justice of the peace all in one. When the Chinese were thrown out, the forms remained and took root in an almost feudal system of loyalty to locality. But with the coming of the French in the 19th century, village autonomy was gradually undercut...
When Ling-Temco-Vought President Clyde Skeen appeared in Wilson & Co.'s Chicago executive suite last December, Wilson President Roscoe G. Haynie mused: "I know he didn't come up here to price a set of golf clubs." Acting as emissary for Ling-Temco Headman James Joseph Ling, who controls 16.6% of the Dallas-based company, Skeen announced that L-T-V thought Wilson & Co. a good investment, planned to offer tenders for one-third of its stock...